Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection)
Person
Biography
John B. Baillie of Leys bequeathed 165 Arabic and Persian manuscripts - the collection of John Baillie, his grandfather - to the University Library in 1876.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 393: شرح الاشارات والتّنبیهات Sharḥ al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 393
Scope and Contents
The second and third part of an Arabic commentary on al-Ishārāt wa-al-Tanbīhāt, a work on logic, physics, and metaphysics by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) d. 428 A.H. (1037 C.E.), by the famous philosopher and astronomer Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) completed 644 A.H. (1246-1247 C.E.).
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 394: احیاء علوم الدیّن Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, 781 A.H., 1379 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 394
Scope and Contents
The famous Arabic work on ethics by the great Shafi'ite Imām Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī of Ṭūs 450-505 A.H. (1058-1111 C.E.), whose honorific title was Ḥujjat-al-Islām "The Proof of Islam”, with a lacuna of six leaves (according to the Arabic pagination) between fols. 169 and 170. It is divided into four quarters or sections, each subdivided into ten books.The present copy is 30 cm by 18.5 cm and has 505 folios, it is written in excellent old Naskh, fully...
Dates:
781 A.H.; 1379 C.E.